Game Changer: John McLendon and the Secret Game

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Hardcover
Author: John Coy
Illustrator: Randy Duburke
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Publish Date: October 2015
Language: English
Reading Level: 5.7
EAN: 9781467726047

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Overview

When they piled into cars and drove through Durham, North Carolina, the members of the Duke University Medical School basketball team only knew that they were going somewhere to play basketball. They didn’t know whom they would play against. But when they came face to face with their opponents, they quickly realized this secret game was going to make history.

Discover the true story of how in 1944, Coach John McLendon orchestrated a secret game between the best players from a white college and his team from the North Carolina College of Negroes. At a time of widespread segregation and rampant racism, this illegal gathering changed the sport of basketball forever.

Details

Pages: 32
Dimensions: 9 x 10.8 x 0.4 in
Lexile Score: 1170
Interest Level: Lower Grade (LG)
Point Value: 0.5
ISBN: 1467726044

Awards

2016 Orbis Pictus Award - Recommended (Children's Nonfiction)